Spreading

[Hugh Neilson]

I searched "spread" in the Combat part of the FAQ - but didn't find this pretty basic question.

 

If I spread an NND to gain +2 OCV, do I sacrifice 1 or 2 dice of damage?

 

The former assumes a DC is 1/2 d6 since the NND has a +1 advantage. This implies every power with an advantage (or limitation?) impacting DC gets divided down fro spreading purposes.

 

The latter assumes 1 DC of the base power, Energy Blast, is used, and that's 1d6 no matter how many advantages it has.

 

Either approach seems arguable, so I'm surprised it never came up before (I probably mised something somewhere).

 

Thanks

Hugh

[Steve Long]

The rules for determining the DCs of an Advantaged power (and thus what trading off a DC to Spread will cost you) are on 5E 269.